Love Letter Truck

This project uses postage stamps as a metaphor for New York City’s diverse and vibrant community, while also highlighting the often-invisible labor of Sanitation Workers who move waste out of the city. Digging through someone’s trash is one of the most intimate ways to understand who they are, offering an unfiltered and deeply private glimpse into everyday life. Discarded objects become fragments of personal stories, like unfinished love letters written collectively by a community. Like old friends sending letters through the mail, these workers carry the remnants of daily life from one place to another, sustaining the city’s continuous cycle. Together, these elements explore the connection between community, labor, pride for our home and circularity, revealing how what we discard continues to speak about who we are.